CAMHS
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) is the name for a range of NHS services which aim to help young people who experience serious emotional, behavioural or mental health difficulties.
The services are delivered by a range of healthcare professionals including psychiatric nurses, child and adolescent psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, social workers, psychotherapists (including child/analytical, systemic/family, cognitive behavioural), creative therapists (including art, music and drama), play therapists, liaison teachers, speech and language therapists, occupational therapists and dietitians.
This website presents plots which illustrate trends in CAMHS referrals, waiting lists and numbers of open cases. These are mostly shown comparing 2020 and pre-pandemic trends. It shows figures for Scotland, by Health Board with an additional highlight on NHS Grampian.
1. Referrals
Monthly Totals
Referrals to CAMHS by month and health board. The red line is for the year 2020. Blue shows the historic min and max. The black line is historic mean.
Cumulative Referrals
This displays the cumulative sum of referrals by month. The red line is for 2020. The dotted line is the historic mean. The red shaded area represents anything below or above the historic mean.
NHS Grampian
This displays the monthly totals and cumulative sums of CAMHS referrals and accepted referrals for NHS Grampian.
2. Patients Waiting
Monthly Totals
This displays the monthly totals of patients waiting for treatment. The red line is for 2020. Blue shows the historic min and max. The black line is the historic mean.
NHS Grampian
This displays the monthly totals of patients waiting for NHS Grampian, as well as a breakdown of numbers waiting for a range of time periods.
3. Patients Seen
Monthly Totals
This displays the monthly total of patients seen at first appointment by health board. Red line is 2020. Blue is historic min/max. Black line is historic mean. Some boards have missing data for 2020.
Cumulative Total
This displays the cumulative sum of patients seen at first appointment by health board. The red line represents the cumulative total. The dotted line is the cumulative sum of the historic mean. The red shaded area represents anything above or below the cumulative sum of the monthly historic mean.
NHS Grampian
This displays the monthly totals of patients seen at first appointment in NHS Grampian, as well as a breakdown of patients seen after various wait lengths.
4. Open Cases
National Open Case
This displays monthly totals of patients receiving treatment who have not yet been discharged. Note: This data only goes back to 2019.
NHS Grampian
Data
Source
All data used to create these plots was sourced from the Public Health Scotland Open Data portal and is used under the UK Open Government License (OGL).